The Best Wine for a Wedding Reception? Choosing Wedding Wine Part 2

A tasting certainly helped solidify thoughts on what we didn’t want, as well as what we did.

Thankfully, after a few more tastings last week we have consensus. Having now hopefully finalised the choices, I’ll present the chosen few below, with a short description of each.

Red Wine: Passimento 2015 Pasqua

Good advice we received regarding wine choices is to sometimes look for the unusual and lesser known grapes and regions.
As well as good prices, you can surprise wine buffs and avoid any preconceptions some may have about common wine brands, grapes or regions.

As well as not widely known, the Passimento 2015 Pasqua is a great choice for a wedding. The label depicts the Romeo & Juliet wall in Verona, which has over 3000 love declarations scrawled across it.

There are love hearts on the bottle and everything, without being over the top or tacky like a ‘personalised’ wine label.

As for the wine itself. there’s enough depth here to satisfy, without being overly heavy and punchy. For a summer wedding, this medium bodied red should be ideal.

I’d say that it will be great with the hog roast, but even better with the roasted lamb which will also be served at the reception.

Sparkling Wine: Abbazia Prosecco Extra Dry

A wedding needs sparkles and some will drink this all day long. A step up in fruitiness from bone-dry brut, this offers fruitiness. A pretty typical Prosecco which I am sure will be popular should the sun appear.